Karen Giang

Executive summary

Karen is a Director within the Project & Infrastructure Advisory team at BDO in Melbourne. She specialises in advising government and private clients on commercial, financial, procurement, strategy and public private partnerships (PPP) for large-scale infrastructure projects. This includes supporting business case preparation, investment proposal evaluation to procurement, financial close, and construction and operations across various sectors focusing on transport, including road, rail, airports and ports.

Karen has more than 15 years’ experience in projects and infrastructure planning and advisory across Australia and Canada. She offers unique insights into developing and delivering highly complex, major multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects across the project lifecycle in a professional services and government setting.

Prior to joining BDO, Karen spent eight years at a global accounting firm in an infrastructure advisory role and more than five years at a Victorian Government department planning and delivering road and rail infrastructure projects.

Expertise

• Commercial and financial advisory
• Business case development
• Procurement and transaction services
• Project and program management.

Experience

State government

• Commercial, financial and economic evaluation of a major motorway widening project
• Commercial and financial evaluation of a major road project
• Business case development, commercial and financial advisory, procurement and transaction advisory for Australia’s largest road infrastructure PPP project
• Business case development, commercial and financial advisory, procurement and transaction advisory for a road maintenance PPP program
• Business case development, commercial and financial advisory, procurement and transaction advisory for a level crossing removal program.

Private sector

• Commercial evaluation of a port logistics contract
• Commercial and economic proposal development for a port project.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce (Finance)
• Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) (Honours).